To The Land of Nevernight

On August [-]th, Su Wenyun, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, returned to Beijing to report on his work.

Tang Shen was no longer on duty at Qinzheng Hall, but because of the matter of Jinling Flying Cavalry Captain Cui Xiao, he made a special trip to Dali Temple.Cui Xiao was only a minor official of the sixth rank, and the papers for his impeachment had been sent up from the Jinling Mansion a few days ago.Originally, such a small matter would have to be tried for three months, so Cui Xiao would also need to be imprisoned for three months.But Tang Shen specifically asked, and the officials of Dali Temple raised the case and tried it immediately.

When leaving Dali Temple, Tang Shen ran into Su Wenyun.

Su Wenyun was quite surprised when he saw Tang Shen. He raised his head and looked at the door plaque of the Dali Temple's government office, and said, "I thought it was the official who went to the wrong place and came to Yushitai. I have never congratulated Mr. Tang for being promoted to admonishing doctor." I haven't seen you for a long time, Mr. Tang seems to be radiant and at ease."

Su Wenyun's words were full of strong irony, Tang Shen had no idea where he had offended this plague god.

He bowed and saluted obediently, and said, "Your Majesty, I have seen Mr. Right Minister of the Ministry of Industry."

Su Wenyun: "There has been a lot of wind and sand outside the Great Wall. After returning to Shengjing, I feel refreshed. Does Master Tang feel this way?"

Tang Shen looked up at him, for a long time, he said: "The lower officials also feel the same way, I don't know what happened to the bandits outside Youzhou city who disrupted the situation after the lower officials left."

Su Wenyun raised his eyebrows: "Everything goes well."

"The lower officials will take their leave first." After speaking, Tang Shen walked away with a flick of his sleeves.

This is the first time the two met after returning to Beijing.

After Tang Shen left, Su Wenyun took care of the affairs first, and only after a few days did he think of Tang Shen.He called the officials of Dali Temple and asked, "Why did Tang Jingze come to Dali Temple a few days ago?"

The officials naturally talked endlessly, and revealed Cui Xiao's matter.

Su Wenyun was taken aback, he thought for a moment, then suddenly smiled: "Jinling Mansion Flying Cavalry Captain? Bring him to me for a look."

The official wiped the sweat from his forehead: "The prisoner, Cui Xiao, has already been taken to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice."

Su Wenyun frowned, he walked a few steps, and then stopped suddenly.Looking at the blue sky outside the window, he recalled the appearance of Tang Shen confronting him two years ago in the Cizhou Yamen.With a sneer, he walked to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.He called officials from the Ministry of Criminal Justice to bring Cui Xiao to await trial, but the official from the Ministry of Criminal Justice said: "Then Cui Xiao crashed into a wall and died in prison a few days ago."

Su Wenyun was shocked.

He already guessed that this Cui Xiao from Jinling Mansion might be related to Tang Shen, or even Liang Song who died five years ago.He even knew that Liang Song had traveled to many places in the past, trying to rescue Zhong Taisheng.This matter is not a secret, Su Wenyun is the emperor's most handy knife, if he really wants to do something to Tang Shen, when the emperor asked him two years ago, if he just said something more, the emperor would keep Tang Shen in mind superior.

Perhaps Tang Shen would not be punished, but it was also impossible to trust him as much as now.

Back then, Su Wenyun regarded this matter as a favor and returned it to Tang Shen.After all, when he was in Cizhou, he used Tang Shen as a bait and almost killed Tang Shen.But now that Cui Xiao died in prison, Su Wenyun wondered, "Tang Jing is so cruel?"

Immediately, he suddenly realized, and said with a sneer, "Then Tang Jingze's hand has not reached the Ministry of Punishment, he has only been an official for a few years. Wang Zifeng, Wang Zifeng, you are really a good brother!"

Of course, this is a follow-up.

At this moment, Tang Shen still doesn't know that Cui Xiao will die in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice in a few days.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tang Shen brought a basket of mooncakes to see Wang Qin. He and Wang Qin made an appointment to enjoy the moon at Shangshu Mansion during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Looking into August, the autumn wind is cool and comfortable.Wang Qin set up a small table in the courtyard, and he could only smell the fragrance of flowers all over the courtyard, coupled with the watery moonlight, it was really refreshing.Tang Shen and Wang Qin were admiring the moon in the courtyard, Tang Shen was eating moon cakes and drinking fruit wine.After taking a sip of the wine, he said in surprise: "This wine is sweet and fragrant, mellow but not thick. It's rare to have such a good wine. Do you still have it at your brother's house?"

Holding the wine glass, Wang Qin raised his eyes and said, "Yes. Junior brother likes it, so let's take two jars when we leave."

Tang Shen was overjoyed: "Okay."

Tang Shen was not a drinker in his previous life, he had to drink in this life, but the ancient wine was really not very good.Either it's not strong enough, or it's too rough.All the good things are in Wang Zifeng's place, it's rare to drink such delicious wine, Tang Shen is also happy to drink more.

Tang Shen didn't know that this fruit wine smelled delicate, but it had a lot of stamina.

While admiring the moon, the two recited poems and tasted wine.After drinking two jugs of wine, Tang Shen suddenly felt dizzy. He looked at Wang Qin in a daze, and said, "I'm drunk, and I saw two senior brothers."

Wang Qin didn't expect Tang Shen to be drunk, he was surprised for a while.Before he could react, Tang Shen suddenly said in a solemn tone: "Wang Zifeng!"

Wang Qin's heart trembled, he felt his scalp numb, and then he couldn't laugh or cry and said: "You rarely call me by name, you always call me senior brother. I didn't think that you would dare to call like that after you got drunk. This is really rare, Why don't you yell a little more?"

Tang Shen seemed to understand what he said, and shouted several times in succession.

"Wang Zifeng..."

"Wang Zifeng!"

"Wang Zifeng!"

Wang Qin was so heartbroken by his shouting, he didn't drink while holding the wine, just squinted his eyes and watched Tang Shen go crazy.

"Wang Zifeng."

"Ok?"

"You talk."

"...What do you want to hear?"

Tang Shen thought for a long time, and said, "Sing a song."

Wang Qin was stunned.

Sing?

He said helplessly: "I don't know, I can also sing. I can play music, do you want to listen to the music? "Phoenix Qiu Huang" and "Long Lovesickness", I am good at both."

Tang Shen looked at Wang Qin steadily, and suddenly said, "I'm so dizzy, I want to sleep."

Wang Qin frowned, and before he could speak, he saw Tang Shen suddenly say "ah, I fell asleep", and then fell asleep, sleeping so hard that people were caught off guard, it took a while for Wang Qin to come back to his senses.He suddenly felt funny and helpless, called the book boy, intending to send Tang Shen to bed.After the book boy arrived, Tang Shen was about to leave, only took two steps when Wang Qin called to stop him.

The book boy stopped in his tracks and looked at his young master puzzled.

Wang Qin looked up and down for a moment, then said, "I'll carry him."

The book boy was stunned for a while, and then helped put Tang Shen on Wang Qin's back.Wang Qin took Tang Shen's two hands and let him wrap them around his neck. He stood up, carried the limp Tang Shen on his back, and walked to the guest room step by step.He paused for a few steps between his yard and the guest room, finally went to the guest room and placed Tang Shen there.

Tang Shen was really drunk and passed out.

Wang Qin stood by his bed, looked down at him for a while, and finally reached out and pinched his cheek.

"Try calling Wang Zifeng again?"

What responded to him was Tang Shen's steady breathing.

Wang Qin pinched Tang Shen's face for a while, then left the guest room because the housekeeper had something to report.But this time even he didn't expect, after he left, after a while, Tang Shen suddenly opened his eyes.He still felt dizzy, and there was a little drunken blush on his cheeks.But amidst the confusion, Tang Shen suddenly felt his mind clear.

He raised his hand and touched his cheek, which was where Wang Qin pinched him just now.

Tang Shen's heart was ups and downs, and he couldn't calm down for a long time. When he closed his eyes, it was the same appearance as Wang Qin was looking at him with the wine just now.Under the moonlight, this person no longer looks like a mortal, but floats like a fairy.But the emotion in those eyes was so intense that it made Tang Shen feel flustered.

When he yelled "Wang Zifeng" for the first time, it was indeed with the strength of alcohol, Tang Shen was stunned when he just yelled.He yelled a few words "Wang Zifeng" inexplicably, but later he came to his senses and felt that he shouldn't belittle Wang Qin like this and offend him, but he didn't expect Wang Qin to be addicted to listening.

Things slowly became like that.

Tang Shen closed his eyes, and next to his ears was Wang Qin's gentle and gentle voice.

Suddenly, Su Wenyun's words flashed through his mind.

"Because Wang Zifeng is as good as Longyang!" 』

These words exploded in Tang Shen's ears.

That day in Youzhou government office, Su Wenyun was persuaded by him, thinking that he had misunderstood Wang Qin.But a seed was planted in Tang Shen's heart.This kind of seed took root and sprouted, and now when he touched his cheek, he felt the skin under his palm was boiling hot, so hot that he couldn't help himself, but the trembling heart in his chest was surging with thoughts that he couldn't understand.

"Wang Zifeng..." When he spoke, his voice was hoarse.

This time, Tang Shen was thinking wildly with Jiu Jin, he really couldn't understand Wang Zifeng.

On the other hand, Wang Qin came to the study.His clothes smelled of Tang Shen's alcohol, so he changed into a white brocade robe, which lost a little bit of the worldly air of officialdom and gave him a bit more air of a nobleman.After entering the study, Wang Qin was not surprised when he saw the person coming, but said: "How did the investigation go?"

"If you go back to your son, the young one has returned to Jinling for several months, and indeed found out some things."

"Then let's talk about it one by one."

Yes, this person is the servant Wang Qin specially sent to Jinling Mansion a few months ago.

The Jinling Mansion was originally the headquarters of the Langya Wang Clan, and if anything happened in the Jinling Mansion, as long as Wang Qin wanted to know, there would be nothing he couldn't find out.However, when Liang Song was active in Jinling five years ago, he did enough covert work, so it took a lot of effort for Wang Qin to find out the truth.Hearing the servant tell the truth, Wang Qinjiu sat on the chair, suddenly calmed down, without saying a word.

After the servant finished speaking, he said, "There is one more thing."

Wang Qin remained silent for a long time.

The servant raised his head: "Young master?" He subconsciously called out Wang Qin's ranking in the Langya Wang family.

Wang Qin came back to his senses and said, "Huh?"

The servant said respectfully: "A few days ago, the little one was about to leave Jinling, and happened to meet a man on the street. This person was Mr. Tang's servant Yao San. The little one had seen Yao San by Mr. Tang's side before, It took me a long time to find out what Yao San did when he came to Jinling Mansion." This servant followed Wang Qin since he was a child, and worked for Wang Qin, and he could do some things without Wang Qin telling him. It was very good for Wang Qin to post properly, otherwise he would not have been sent to Jinling.

The servant said: "Then Yao San went to Jinling Mansion to investigate a flying cavalry captain named Cui Xiao. I did some more research and found that Cui Xiao was very greedy for money. He seemed to be impeached. I left Jinling Mansion and went to Shengjing."

Wang Qin suddenly felt wrong: "You said he came to Shengjing half a month ago?"

"Yes, the younger one was directly inquired about in the Jinling government office through the Wang family's relationship."

Wang Qin got up and walked two steps in the study, he stopped, turned around and asked, "Did Yao San see you?"

"No, besides, Yao San doesn't know the little one."

Wang Qin sighed, "I see, you can go down."

"Yes."

In the early morning of the next day, Tang Shen pretended to be really drunk and said to Wang Qin guiltily, "I drank too much last night. I don't know what I did. When I woke up, I found myself in the guest room. I never drank too much However, I don’t know what it looks like when I’m drunk. I didn’t say anything or do anything to offend my brother, right?”

Wang Qin didn't take what happened last night to heart at first, he really thought Tang Shen was drunk.Unexpectedly, when Tang Shen said that this place has no silver 300 taels, he suddenly became suspicious.He looked at Tang Shen seriously for a while, then said with a smile, "Never."

Tang Shen breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."

After Tang Shen left, Wang Qin called a servant and asked Tang Shen how he behaved after getting up this morning.It's a pity that with this information alone, he still couldn't figure out whether Tang Shen was pretending to be drunk.

Wang Qin didn't take it seriously, he smiled lightly and said, "It's not bad if you pretend to be drunk."

Wang Qin started to investigate Cui Xiao in Shengjing City. On the other side, after the early court, Zhao Fu called the three princes to the Chuigong Hall.

The clear sunlight shines through the glazed windows, and the ambergris permeates the silent arched hall. Zhao Fu flipped through the papers on the table and said, "I have been on the throne for 31 years, and I have not had many children. Now you are the only ones left. You have also done some errands in the court today, and you have done a good job in the Empress Dowager's Mingshou. I am very satisfied. I thought about it last night, and it seems that it is not a good thing to always tie you by my side. From now on, you Then leave Shengjing and do something real!"

The three princes were all stunned.